An edition of The Best of Everything (1958)

Rien n'est trop beau

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An edition of The Best of Everything (1958)

Rien n'est trop beau

roman

  • 2.00 ·
  • 1 Rating
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Un "best seller" de 1958 qui rend bien l'atmosphère du New York des années 1950 à travers les vicissitudes de jeunes filles employées dans une grande maison d'édition. [SDM].

Publish Date
Language
French
Pages
550

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Rien n'est trop beau
Rien n'est trop beau: roman
2012-09, Presses de la Cite
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Van alles het beste
Van alles het beste
2011, Arbeiderspers
Library Binding in Dutch
Cover of: The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything
2011, Penguin Books
paperback in English - Penguin Classics edition (2); Mad Men tie-in
Cover of: Rien n'est trop beau
Rien n'est trop beau: roman
2011, Presses de la Cité
Paperback in French
Cover of: The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything
2005, Penguin Books
Paperback in English - 9th printing
Cover of: The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything
1976 January, Avon
Mass Market Paperback in English - Fifth printing
Cover of: The Best of Everything
The Best of Everything: a novel
1958, Simon and Schuster
Hardcover in English - Fifth printing

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Published in

Paris

Edition Notes

Copyright Date
2011
Translation Of
Best of Everything
Translated From
English

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813
Library of Congress
PS3519J23B5612011F

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
1 vol. (549 p.)
Number of pages
550

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32138089M
Internet Archive
riennesttropbeau0000jaff
ISBN 10
225809092X
ISBN 13
9782258090927
OCLC/WorldCat
762785934, 1066081794
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
12716492

Work Description

Before Valley of the Dolls and Sex in the City, there was The Best of Everything—the iconic novel of ambitious career girls in New York City.

When it was first published in 1958, Rona Jaffe’s debut novel electrified readers who saw themselves reflected in its story of five young employees of a New York publishing company. There’s Ivy League Caroline, who dreams of graduating from the typing pool to an editor’s office; naive country girl April, who within months of hitting town reinvents herself as the woman every man wants on his arm; Gregg, the free-spirited actress with a secret yearning for domesticity. Now a classic, and as page-turning as when it first came out, The Best of Everything portrays their lives and passions with intelligence, affection, and prose as sharp as a paper cut.
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You see them every morning at a quarter to nine, rushing out of the maw of the subway tunnel, filing out of Grand Central Station, crossing Lexington and Park and Madison and Fifth avenues, the hundreds and hundreds of girls. Some of them look eager and some look resentful, and some of them look as if they haven’t left their beds yet.
added by Lisa.

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